https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26479 --- Comment #7 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de> --- (In reply to Oliver Behnke from comment #3)
My issue was caused by a recent regression. See bug 37525.
That said, I agree that the UX is not as intuitive as it could be. When you allow "SCOAllowCheckin" this enables multiple buttons to "Return" or "Check in" an item. The one you're missing is the "Check in" button in the "Renew" column of the "Checkouts" table (on the main SCO page). That's only visible for items that cannot be renewed. To lessen the confusion this causes, I set "SCOLoadCheckoutsByDefault" to "Don't show", such that the occasional "Check in" button isn't visible by default.
The standard button(s) to return an item are provided *after* you've entered the barcode of the item to be returned. What's making this UX worse are the prominent warnings like "You cannot renew this item again" or "This item is already checked out to you" - things I never intended or know anyway. IMHO, the return workflow needs some love here.
1) When "SCOAllowCheckin" is allowed, add a "Return" column to the "Checkouts" table with a single "Check in" item in it. This speeds up bulk self-checkins and makes the "Renew -> Check in" button less confusing 2) Rephrase the individual return dialog to make returns a first-class citizen, not just a (felt) exception.
Cheers
I believe these are indeed different bugs. Mine was about the button in the checkous table, that doesn't appear to be fixed here, since Olli wrote: "But I felt like the user should not be able to check-in books from that list, because there is no guarantee the user actually has the book." So the patch should indeed probably go on bug 37525. With self checks you never know if the user actually has the item, it's all about trust. Please be aware that there is also a separate GUI for checkins that is more advanced probably, see SelfCheckInModule system preference. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.